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Back to Health Dashboard- Health Article description.Covers surgery to replace ends of both bones in a damaged joint to create new joint surfaces. Includes slideshow on hip replacement. Looks at why it is done and how well it works. Discusses what to expect after surgery and living with a hip replacement.
- Kaiser Permanente and the National Union of Healthcare Workers exchange a total of 10 proposals for consideration.
- Health Article description.Lymphedema is a collection of fluid called lymph in the tissues of the body. Normally, this fluid flows through the lymph system. If that system isn't working as it should, fluid can build up in the affected area and cause lymphedema. This happens most often in an arm or leg. What causes lymphedema? Lymphedema may be...
- Medicaid recipients should have high-quality care, high levels of satisfaction, and manageable costs. Kaiser Permanente’s integrated model of health care and coverage can help achieve these goals.
- Health Article description.Focuses on palliative care as a holistic—body, mind, spirit—approach to dealing with serious illness. Explains that palliative care team guides talks about treatment, pain management, hospice care, family needs, and legal issues.
- Reducing Medicaid funding will lead to worse health outcomes, overburden emergency rooms, and cause many rural hospitals to close.
- Health Article description.Guides you through the decision to have surgery for a torn meniscus. Explains two kinds of surgery. Explains when surgery is done. Lists risks and benefits of surgery for meniscus tear. Includes interactive tool to help you decide.
- At Kaiser Permanente, our doctors and pharmacists work together to ensure the drugs we prescribe are based on the evidence, not ads.
- Medicaid and tax credits for acquiring coverage are essential for patients, the economy, and the health care system.
- Health Article description.What is an ankle sprain? An ankle sprain is an injury that happens when you stretch or tear the ligaments in your ankle. Most sprains happen when you twist your ankle. Afterward, the ankle usually becomes swollen and painful. Even though ankle sprains are common, they aren't always minor injuries. Some people with...
- Health insurance is key to a strong country — it improves health and boosts our economy.
- Health Article description.Gender identity is your inner sense of being male, female, both, neither, or another gender. For some people, their gender identity doesn't match the sex they were assigned at birth. Most children start to identify their gender around age 3. Many...
- The agreement between Kaiser Permanente and the NUHW in Southern California ensures high quality mental health care and competitive wages and benefits.
- Health Article description.Talking with your partner may help your sexual function. Couples often assume that they each know what the other person likes when it comes to sex. Sometimes they are wrong. Don't assume. Tell your partner what does and doesn't give you pleasure.
- Kaiser Permanente is working to address drug shortages and support policies that maintain access, improve patient care, and promote affordability.
- Kaiser Permanente has opened a new Radiation Oncology Center at the Bellflower Medical Offices.
- Health Article description.Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental health condition that causes repeated unwanted thoughts. The thoughts are hard to control and usually cause distress or anxiety. To reduce the distress, you may do the same tasks over and over. For...
- It’s time to reform prescription drug pricing policies to increase affordability and better promote innovation.
- Kaiser Permanente relies on personal health information to deliver high-quality care. Protecting the confidentiality of that information is required by federal and state law and is a top priority.
- Health Article description.You have erection problems if you can't get or keep an erection that is firm enough for you to have sex. Erection problems are also called erectile dysfunction or impotence. They are more common as you get older. There are treatments that can help.
- America’s best way forward is to build on the progress our country has made and promote coordinated care that rewards quality over quantity.
- Health Article description.Provides step-by-step instructions and photos for doing easy and then more intense exercises for patellar tracking disorder.
- Artificial intelligence can improve health care by reducing administrative tasks, supporting diagnoses, and helping clinicians develop personalized treatment plans.
- Health Article description.Lumbar spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spinal canal in the lower back, known as the lumbar area. The spine is made up of bones called vertebrae. The spinal cord runs through an opening in the bones called the spinal canal. Sometimes bones and...
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